Tattoo things that we believe, stars and hearts and skulls in half-sleeves.

 

Don’t steal*. Happy Halloween.

 

Comic credit: Drew at Toothpaste for Dinner
Title credit: Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Young Shields

*Is reblogging basically just the new equivalent of stealing? I mean, I give credit and all, but I kinda feel lame that I can’t come up with my own funny costume idea for my own funny webcomic.

Ah well, see here and here for more funny not-my-ideas.

The workers are going home…the workers are going HOME! YEAH YEAH YEAH!

My Weezer Articles To Blog About folder is kind of outta control, so – it’s Make A List time!

(Think I’m joking? <—Click it)

1. Hilarity over at The Awl: from April 27, 2010, Sex Offender Week: Rivers Cuomo Messes You Up Forever by Sady Doyle

2. And now that you are seriously questioning your “I Love Weezer, but nothing after Pinkerton” concert t-shirt — Pitchfork [old] news: Weezer Plan Blue LP/Pinkerton Tour

3. So maybe you should trade it in for a snuggie? A wuggie? (gross!)

4. Anything to hold off on purchasing another disappointing Weezer album

*

Happy 14th Birthday Pinkerton.

EEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUWWWWW.

Title credit: Weezer, Blue Album – side one, track one (“My Name Is Jonas”)

* I do kinda like seeing Hurley’s big smiley face on construction site plywood around the city. Makes me think of another big face I like to see around Toronto.

He’s got two left feet and he bites my moves.

Here is what happens when you give the internet a transparent .PNG

Strutting Leo. Prancing Cera. and…

…[Catchy verb] Rob Ford!

Twitter is dumb and the internet is weird.

Title credit: Black Kids, I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You

Sunday morning, on the bed two half-eaten croissants

YouTube – Faith No More – Easy.

A very sweet boy put this on a mix tape for me, back in 2000. (I wonder what Allan MacInnis is doing now. I’m gonna fight the urge and not google him.) I had forgotten who covered this Commodores hit until just now. I have no idea what made me remember. And why didn’t this get put on my Days of the Weak mix? Part II will include it for sure.

I do love it when he says “ewwww” right around 1 minute 54. Baby-makin’ music.

Title credit: Peter, Bjorn and John, Paris 2004

Take a look at my girlfriend, she’s the only one I’ve got

One of the super-fun amaza-crazing things about being an aunt — getting to pick the driving-my-nephew-around soundtrack.

Only problem– he gets attached to one song (“NOOOO! the california girl song*!”) and doesn’t want to hear anything else.

(*Breakfast in America, “See the girls in California”, and yes, it’s not the most obvious lyric to pick up on)

Even though I could play him this:

or this: or maybe even this:.

And one day… I’ll have him requesting this:

Title credit: Supertramp, Breakfast in America

‘Cause once you learn the steps, it’s somethin that you’ll never forget

I may have just purchased this:

So I could hear this:

Mostly because of this:

Which was recorded for this album. And listening to it reminds me of this guy:

dancing around the living room of a certain Hamilton Street apartment I used to frequent.

Back to school time makes me miss Rochester a little. Moving to Toronto makes me excited about finding terrible records for 99cents at the Goodwill. Yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah yeahyeah!

Title credit: Toronto, Daddy Don’t Know

You took me to your library and kissed me in the stacks

“While Gotham is at the science fair, I’m banging the prom queen behind the woodshop.”

Font snob hilarity. With a felt-tipped marker. I wonder if the prom queen is Curlz?

And isn’t this just throwing wood on the fire? Seriously. Those are some uglyass t-shirts.

And why hasn’t their been a movement against Mistral. C’mon hipsters. Look at how gross this is:

Wait– someone has PAID for this?

Okay, I’m done. I’m dancing on the ceiling.

Title credit: Magnetic Fields, Swinging London

We don’t bleed, when we don’t fight, go ahead go ahead, throw your arms in the air tonight.

It’s that time of year again! See you soon, Rochester.

Title credit: The National, Runaway

We’ll live on coffee and flowers, try not to wonder what the weather will be

Things that cheer me up, Part II. (see Part I here)

Give it 30 seconds for full hilarity effect

Pop culture flowcharts and glee crossovers

And one more, for good measure.

Title credit: The National, Conversation 16

I turned it over in my mind like a living chinese finger trap, seaweed and indiana sawgrass

I have had an enormous design crush on Todd Falkowsky since coming across a Becker’s post by the (also very design crushworthy) Hannah Wise on the Canadian Design Resource.

He is still making cool things, and now he’s forming young pencil-propped design minds as well.

Go see his pick for this year’s colour. {Oh WordPress, quit trying to correct my perfect spelling.}

Also, if you are a Canadian designer (or a Canada-based designer) and you are going to be in Toronto on May 30 — email me ASAP. I have some exciting top secret project news to disperse, and I’m looking for participants. Ones who understand why this is funny:

Title Credit: The Mountain Goats, Pale Green Things

Ed. Note: Thank you Hannah for catchin my Becker’s blip 😉 You two design-fiends keep doin what you are doin – CDR should be on everyone’s radar rss feeds.